Microsoft Purview Information Protection
The Purview capability that discovers, classifies, labels, and protects sensitive data across Microsoft 365.
Microsoft Purview Information Protection is the capability within Microsoft Purview that discovers, classifies, labels, and protects sensitive content across Microsoft 365 services, endpoints, and cloud apps. It uses sensitivity labels to apply persistent encryption, access restrictions, and visual markings to documents and emails, so protections travel with the content wherever it is shared. The exam distinction is that Information Protection labels and encrypts the data, while Data Loss Prevention (DLP) detects and blocks policy violations; a label classifies content, and DLP can enforce rules based on it. Microsoft 365 Copilot honors these labels and a user’s existing permissions.
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